Principal AI/ML Researcher / Engineer In Reasoning, Planning, and Decision-making systems
연구원정규직리드 · 15년 이상
Airbnb에서 추론, 계획 및 의사결정 시스템을 설계할 Principal AI/ML 연구원/엔지니어를 채용합니다. 15년 이상의 AI/ML 경력과 LLM/LRM, 강화학습(RL), 지식 그래프 활용 능력이 필수입니다. 차세대 지능형 에이전트 아키텍처를 구축하고, 복잡한 실시간 의사결정 시스템을 주도할 전문가를 찾습니다.
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
We are seeking a Principal / Distinguished AI/ML Researcher and/or Engineer with deep experience in reasoning, planning, and decision-making systems. This role is ideal for individuals who have architected post-training intelligence frameworks, integrated Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) with Knowledge Graphs, and applied Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a first-class component of adaptive planning and control. You will be responsible for inventing, scaling, and operationalizing intelligent decisioning substrates that blend symbolic and sub-symbolic methods, enabling next-generation AI systems that go beyond pattern recognition into the realm of deliberation, foresight, and agency.
Our mission is to build cognitive AI systems that combine post-trained foundational models, explicit memory and knowledge, and recursive planning strategies to power sophisticated real-world decisioning in personalized environments. You will collaborate across disciplines and influence company-wide AI architecture.
A core dimension of this role is the design and deployment of multi-agent systems, where reasoning, planning, and decisioning are distributed across networks of intelligent agents. You will formulate coherent, synergistic strategies that enable agents to cooperate, negotiate, and align objectives, ensuring that distributed intelligence converges to purposeful, high-quality outcomes across contexts.
This role advances Airbnb's AI capabilities toward reasoning, planning, and adaptive decision-making across complex real-world environments. The near-term impact spans improved decision quality, contextual intelligence, adaptive personalization, and operational coordination across guest and host workflows — introducing goal-directed reasoning systems capable of handling ambiguity, constraints, trade-offs, and multi-step planning. Guests benefit from more intelligent planning and assistance, while hosts and internal teams gain systems capable of adaptive optimization, dynamic recommendations, policy-aware decisioning, and intelligent workflow orchestration.
Longer term, this role helps establish Airbnb's leadership in cognitive AI systems and distributed intelligence architectures. The technologies developed here become the decisioning and reasoning substrate underlying the broader ecosystem — enabling AI systems that can deliberate, coordinate, adapt, and make coherent long-horizon decisions across multiple agents and environments. Over time, this positions Airbnb as an intelligent coordination and planning platform where AI systems actively reason, plan, and coordinate actions across the marketplace in ways that continuously improve user outcomes, ecosystem health, and strategic adaptability.
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Pay Range
$296,000—$370,000 USD